Healing Is Reunion With God

There’s a statement that the ancient healers were concerned with the reciprocity between us and God—or the Dao, or the Everything—while in the modern world, we’ve become more concerned with systems, processes, and pathways.

I was reflecting on that this morning, because for me, my healing has been the product of a deeply developed relationship of reciprocity with God. I truly believe that my work strengthens God, and God’s work strengthens me. Many people don’t see it that way, and that’s okay—but this is my truth. It’s why I see the return of vitality in myself as the direct result of cultivating that relationship—further and further, deeper and deeper.

This, to me, is the ultimate goal. Symptomology naturally reverses as that relationship is reestablished. The more that relationship deepens, the more trust I have. The more trust I have, the more centered I feel—the more energy, spaciousness, clarity, connection, truth, soul-play, and intimacy I can access. These are all downstream effects of the restoration of that relationship.

I’ve thought about this a lot, because it’s what originally inspired me to study Chinese medicine—the intimate relationship between myself as a being and the living field of which I am a part. I began to wonder: if illness occurs in this body, is it the body failing, or is it the connection failing? Is it that I have fallen out of relationship?

This isn’t a judgment—it’s a patterned human response we’ve enacted en masse. But if I am out of relationship, then fragmentation occurs—a shattering of connection. And if each of my cells is born from that divine field, then that shattering means the cell is no longer connected in the same way that allows it to thrive. Perhaps illness is simply the disruption of that flow.

I’ve often said that illness is what happens when the connection to God no longer happens at the level of the cell—when the infinite wisdom that can restore anything is no longer flowing there. This mirrors Chinese medicine’s view of nourishing the movement of Qi, our life force—the God force itself.

Our work is to build it daily, honor it, be in relationship with it. To learn its nuances, how it speaks within us, how to recognize the signs of its absence or presence, and to do the work of restoring connection. At its heart, this is what alchemical medicine truly is: bypassing the fixation on pathology and instead witnessing where fragmentation has occurred—and nurturing the return of that infinite wisdom. Once that wisdom flows again, vitality naturally follows.

This is the essence of why I am a healer. This exploration has fascinated me for decades, and the more I allow it to lead, the greater the outcomes—for myself and for those I serve. When I’ve gotten caught up in pathology, I could make certain things shift, but the deep sense of wholeness did not return. The spark of true life force was rarely ignited.

Pathology-based healing strategies can quiet small fires, but they rarely evoke the God-force wholeness within a person. That is my sole focus now—to awaken that wholeness in each of us, so we can live as the most alive, voraciously free, and true expressions of who we are. Because in doing so, we strengthen the God-force itself.